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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Rich
Poor
Lives
Nature
Never
Rarely
Fancy

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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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